Apparatus for applying wax to boots and shoes and the like.



H0. 868,923. 'PATENTED 00122. 1907.

' an. HARLOW.

APPARATUfi FOR AEPLYIHG WAK T0 BOOTS AND SHOES AND THE LIKE. Arrmumml $11.21) Am. 7, 1905. RENEWED JUNE 25, 1907.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

, GE OIEQE'HPHARLQW, HUDSON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HARLOW SHOE FINISHING MACHINERY-COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHU- airsushtrrrs i on APPLYING wax T noors AND snons AND 'rr'rs mm,

i massages;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 22, 1907.

- Application filed. August 7, 1905, SerialNo- 273,066- Renewed June 25, 1907. Serial No. 385,752r

' To allwhomt't may concern: i

Be it known that I, Gnoaen H. HARLOW, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hudson, in the countv of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have inv ed an Improvement in Apparatus for Applying Wait to Boots and Shoes and the Like, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts. 1

This invention has for its object the production of novel apparatuslfor applying wax on thel heels and other parts of boots and shoes and the like, as the same are being finished.

I have illustrated my invention as adapted to applying wax to a-rotary member that lays the wax on a heel edge. 1

My improved apparatus embodies a rotary textile coveredmember and a wax distributer shown as a block of metal, preferably concaved at its face that contacts v with the rtatable member. said distributer having a series of ducts, through which the melted wax is forced by said member asthe latter is rotated, the friction of the rotatable member against the distributer heating both the cover of the rotatable member and the dis-- tributer sufficiently To keep-the wax in a semi-liquid upwardly between said member and the concaved face oi. the distributor, the wax entering thelower ends of the'ducts'of the distributer, and being delivered at the upper end thereof through the distributer being in-. clined downwardly toward the axis of rotation of said rotary member. i V Figure 1 in front elevation illustrates an apparatus "embodying my invention; Fig. 2 a view of part of the apparatus to the left of the dotted line 2:; Fig. 3 is a yiewgenlarged of the inner faceof the distributor, and Fig. 4 lfl 'shows the distributor in vertical section, the dotted lines showing part of the rotatable member.

The standard A has-suitable uprights or bearings that; sustain two shafts, 'A, A each provided with a. belt pulley, as A, A, about which, in practice will be extended belts driven from pulleys A, A on a power shaft A" sustained in the standard. The shaft A? has I secured to it the hub of a disk or wheel a preferably of wood, and having a textile covering composed of a layer of felt a and a cover a", of cloth, preferably cotton. The

30 covering is therefore non-metallic, is yielding, and as Sll'IWll is of textile material, and thewheel and. its

pl :1 rlingeoyering constitute what I designate as the roiw. ride mmbel. I i

The distributer B comprises a steel block, having a concave face 6 and an inclined top bf, and the face of the distributor is provided with one or a series of ducts b that, as shown, lead from near the center of the length of the distributor to its top. The top of the distributor hasside walls 2 t at co-act with the top b to form a waxholding chamber, and the side of the distributor is also shown as havingfianges 3 to embrace'the sids of the rotatable member.

'The distributer is carried by a spring!) pivoted at 6 to part of the framework or a standard A, and by turning two nuts 7, 8 on a screw-rod G attached-to thespring and extended loosely through the rigid standard, the pressure and consequently the degree of friction between the rotatablememberand the face of the distributer may be determined. The greater the pressure and the higher the speed of the rotatable member, the hotter the surface of the rotatable member and the dis.-

tributer.

When the machine has been run long enough to heat the rotatable member and distributor sufiiciontly to melt the wax used for finishing the exterior of a heel of a boot or shoe, the operator, holds the wax in its cold state against the-periphery of the wheel, and the periphery being heated takes the wax and carries it up against the face of the distributer, and the melted wax is forced by the wheel into the lower ends of the dpcts, and is delivered from the upper ends of said ducts on the incline of top b of the distributer, and resting oh the incline is taken therefrom by the'periphery-of the ro tatable member and applied to the heel, or other part ofa boot of shoe which is held in contact with said member. The side walls 2 of the distributer extended above the inclined top'part serves to retain the melted wax untiltaken up by the periphery of the rotatable memberas the latter is rotated rapidly The'sha ft A is shown as provided at one end with a brush E that may be employed to act against the heel edge coated with wax by the parts described, said brush acting to give a polish to the waxed surface.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by LettersPatent is 1. In apparatusof .the class-described, a rotatable member, combined with a distributor in engagement with said rotatable member, and provided with ducts leading to. the upper end 01 said distributer.

2. In apparatus of the class described, a rotatable member, combined with a distributor concaved 'at its face and provided with ductsleading to the upper end of said member, combined with a distributer having its upper end -v inclined toward the center of rotation of said member and concnv'ed at its face and provided with a series of ducts leading to the upper end of said distributer. v

In apparatus of the class described, a rotatable member, combined with a distributer concaved at its face and provided with duets leading to the upper end of said distributor, and means to regulate the pressure of said distribni'er against said rotatable member. 7

6. A wax distributer comprising a metal block concaved at its face and having an inclined top provided witl walls, the face of said block being provided with ducts leading from said farce upwardly to the t0p.'0f the block through which heated wax may be forced to the top of the block.

' 7. In apparatus of the class deseribedfa metallic dis- 15 tributer, a rotatable member,-1neans to hold said rotatable member pressed against said distributer, and. means to rotate said member, the friction generated by the Contact of l the member with the dlstribnter heating the distributer and member and melting the wax that the rotatable mom- 1 her may apply the same to the snrface to be waxed.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this a specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE H. HARLOW. Witnesses Geo W. GREGORY, h'llmolum'r A. DUNN. 

